Stove-pipe



(No Model.)

J. TOCIN.

STOVE PIPE. No 461,058. Patented 0013. 13,1891.

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Witnesses. I Inventor.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH TOOIN, OF BUFFALO, NEV YORK.

STOVE-Pl PE.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,058, dated October13, 1891.

Application filed December 13, 1890- Serial No. 374,532. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, JOSEPH ToC1N,a citizen of the United States,residing in Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove-Pipes, of whichthe fol lowing is a specification.

My invention consists in certain improve ments in sheet-iron stove-pipejoints, whereby a large portion of the heat that usually passes offthrough the pipe is caught and thrown out into the room, all of whichwill be fully and clearly hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sideelevation of a joint of pipe made in accordance with my invention. Fig.2 is a vertical section in line a b, Fig. 4.. Fig. 3 is a side sectionalelevation of a joint of stove-pipe, showing a modification of the same,a portion being broken away to show one of the transverse pipes. Fig. 4is a top plan view. Fig. 5 is a detached side elevation of one of thetransverse tubes before being put into a joint of pipe.

In said drawings, 1 represents a joint of pipe. 2 is the contracted orsmall end adapted to slip into the large end 3 of another similar jointof pipe. This is a common construction and is arbitrary, so that aseries of such joints can be put together in the well-known way,otherwise it would not be a joint of stovepipe, because it would beimpossible to putit together as such.

At the top of the pipe 3 is the usual surrounding head or rib 4. toprevent the joints from slipping too far into each other, and at thebottom of the joint is another bead 5 for the same purpose. After thejoint of pipe is formed and put together by double-seaming in the usualway a series of small transverse tubes 6, having a surrounding bead '7near each end, are forced down into the pipe, which will springsufficiently to allow them to be put in that way, and when the ends comeopposite the holes (previously put in the joint of pipe and adapted toreceive the ends of the tubes) the ends 8 (see Fig. 5) pass through thepipe until stopped by the beads 7. As the pipe again springs into shapethe ends 8 are then turned over, substantially as shown in Fig. 2,thereby forming a flange 9, which tightly incloses the sides of the pipeto which it is connected between the flange 9 and the beads 7, therebyfastening the tubes rigidly in place, substantially as shown in Fig. 3.These transverse pipes are preferably arranged, substantially as shownin Figs. 1, 2, and 4., so as to be located spirally around the pipe. orsubstantially so. If desired the transverse tubes may be enlarged ateach end, sub; stantially as shown at 10 in Fig. The object of thisconstruction is to provide the means for receiving a portion of the heatthat usually passes off out of the chimney and conduct it through thetransverse tubes or pipes 6 into the room in which the stove is located.

The object in arranging the transverse tubes 6 spirally around the pipeis to provide a passage-way for the heated products of coinbustion thatwill tend to lengthen their passage without materially decreasing thespeed of their movement through it and thereby interfere with the draftof the stove to which the pipe may be attached by causing it to move ina spiral direction through the pipe, and thus part with more of its heaton its course than it would if-it passed in a shorter straight directionthrough it. The heated round each of the tubes 6 as they pass along byreason of this spiral or rotary movement, and thus impart more heat tothem than it they passed up in a direct line.

The tubes 6 being spirally arranged within the pipe, it requires atleast three of such tubes within each pipejoint, so that when a seriesof such are put together a substantially continuous spiral passage wayis formed, because it causes the'heated air and other gases to take aforward spiral movement as they go through the pipe as above mentioned.

1 am aware that stove-pipe joints have heretofore been made havingtransverse tubes located slightly above and at right angles to eachother. I therefore do not claim such construction, broadly; but

\Vhat I do claim is As an article of manufacture, a stove-pipe jointhaving permanently secured thereto a series of transverse pipes locatedspirally within it, so as to give a spiral direction to a current of airor gas passing through it, substantially as and for the purposesdescribed.

JOSEPH TOOIN.

Witnesses:

JAMEs SANGs'rER,

J ENNIE M. CALD\VELL products of combustion more completely sur

